...en and girls and grievous burning of others.
It made a deep impression on the people of the city at the time.
There were at least two explosions of fulminating mercury; one at Richmond and one at Augusta ; in each of these but a single man, I believe, was injured.
The incorporating house of a small private powder mill near Raleigh, N. C., blew up in 1862, with the loss of three or four lives.
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